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In this chilling and inventive documentary, executive produced by Errol Morris (The Fog of War) and Werner Herzog (Grizzly Man), the filmmakers examine a country where death squad leaders are celebrated as heroes, challenging them to reenact their real-life mass-killings in the style of the American movies they love. The hallucinatory result is a cinematic fever dream, an unsettling journey deep into the imaginations of mass-murderers and the shockingly banal regime of corruption and impunity they inhabit. Shaking audiences at the 2012 Toronto and Telluride Film Festivals and winning an Audience Award at the 2013 Berlin International Film Festival.

2013 · 1h 57m

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The Act of Killing

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In this chilling and inventive documentary, executive produced by Errol Morris (The Fog of War) and Werner Herzog (Grizzly Man), the filmmakers examine a country where death squad leaders are celebrated as heroes, challenging them to reenact their real-life mass-killings in the style of the American movies they love. The hallucinatory result is a cinematic fever dream, an unsettling journey deep into the imaginations of mass-murderers and the shockingly banal regime of corruption and impunity they inhabit. Shaking audiences at the 2012 Toronto and Telluride Film Festivals and winning an Audience Award at the 2013 Berlin International Film Festival.

COMMON SENSE

Indonesian genocide docu has simulated violence, language.

TOMATOMETER
Average 8.9
Reviews 163
Fresh 156
Rotten 7

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Studio
Drafthouse Films
Released
2013
Run Time
1 hr 57 min
Rated
Unrated
Regions of Origin
Denmark, United Kingdom, Indonesia, Norway, Germany, Finland, Poland
© 2012 Final Cut For Real / Piraya Film / Novaya Zemlya

Languages

Original Audio
Indonesian, Indonesian (Indonesia), English, Indonesian
Audio

Indonesian (Indonesia) (⁨Dolby 5.1⁩, AAC)

Subtitles

English (United States) (Always On, CC)

Accessibility

Closed captions (CC) refer to subtitles in the available language with the addition of relevant non-dialogue information.